My Girls Never Want to See Their Father Again. We're Still Trying to Rebuild Our Lives After Jessie's Death ; in a Heart-Rending Interview, the Mother of Mygirls Never Chess Prodigy Jessie Gilbert Talks of Life After Her Suicide

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STARING into the camera, British chess prodigy Jessie Gilbert looks like any modern teenage girl. She wears a fashionably faded blue denim jacket over a slightly crumpled T-shirt. Only her solemn face gives a hint of the shocking allegations she is about to make.

In the subsequent 35-minute video, recorded by Surrey Police, 17- year-old Jessie says she has been raped by her own father, a City banker named Ian. She claims the sexual attacks happened in her bedroom at the family's house in Woldingham, Surrey, from the age of eight until she reached puberty at 13.

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My Girls Never Want to See Their Father Again. We're Still Trying to Rebuild Our Lives After Jessie's Death ; in a Heart-Rending Interview, the Mother of Mygirls Never Chess Prodigy Jessie Gilbert Talks of Life After Her Suicide

During one piece of footage, she describes how, bruised and in pain after the first rape, she hid her blood-stained underwear in the dustbin so her sisters and mother, Angela, would not discover what had happened.

When the video was shown in a courtroom last November, women watching from the public gallery wept. The testimony of Jessie

Mr Gilbert that he has since been able Gilbert was a central plank in a rape case brought by the Crown Prosecution Service against her father.

Mr Gilbert always insisted the allegations were outrageous. He was cleared of the sexual attacks on Jessie, and the rape and indecent assaults o...

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